Hickey and mounting therefor



April 29, 1930. A. LIEBOWITZ n LSGPM@ v I HICKEY AND MOUNTING THERE'FORFiled April 25,` 1928 Patented Apr. 29, 1930 iastate PATENT OFFICEALFRED LIEBOWITL OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK HICKEY AND MOUNTING THEREFORApplication led April 23,

This invention relates to improvements in electric lighting appliances,and has particular reference to a hickey and mounting therefor.

6 An object of the invention is to provide an improved hickey of simpleand practical construction which is capable of having connected theretovarious sizes and types of tubes utilized as supports for electricalfixtures.

Another ob`ect is to provide a hickey or coupling member by means ofwhich an elec. trical fixture may be securely supported in position andwhich will provide an effective ground connection between the fixtureand wall casing that carries the hickey, thereby preventing'A thepossibility of short circuits due to faulty and loose connections.

A further object is to so construct the hickey that the same may bemounted in various standard types of wall casings without altering theconstruction of the latter.

The above and other objects will appear I more clearly from thefollowing detailed description, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, which illustrates preferred embodiments of theinventive idea.

In the drawing- Fi ure 1 is a sectional view of a casing showlng thehickey therein in operative position; l

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional View showing the manner of mountingthe hickey in position in a standard type of casing;

Figure 4 is an elevation, partly broken away and shown in section, ofthe hickey illustrated in Figures 1 and 2; and

Figures 5 and 6 are plan views of slightly different Jforms of hickeys.

The present invention is designed primarily to avoid the objectionsarising from the use of a xture wherein a strap having but a singleopening therein for receiving the screw threaded end of' a fixture tubeis secured in position across the open end vof the wall casing or boxthrough which the various electric conductors are led. It sometimesoccurs that the fixture tubes suppliedy for a certain installation areof a size which will not fit the strap opening and unless the in- 1928.seria1No.272,os2. i

staller is aware of this condition before starting the work it becomesnecessary to replace the straps with ones having different sizedopenings, thus causing more or less delay in completing theinstallation.

Accordingly, to overcome this difficulty, the present hickey or couplingis provided and its construction is such that it may be mounted withinthe confines of various standard types of casings, one of which is shownfor example in the drawing. This casing 10 is adapted to be mounted in awall or ceiling and adjacent the inner or closed end is formed with theusual openings 11 for receiving the cables 12 through which the variousconduc- 65 tors 13 extend into the interior of the casing.

It is customary to fix the cables in position by means of straps 14:which straddle adjacent cables and hold the same against the inner endof the casing, the straps being `se 70 cured in position by screws 15threaded in said end. Depending upon the points of entrance of thecables into the casing, which may be through the sides or ends thereof,the straps are arranged adjacent the sides, as '55 shown in Figures 1and 2, or at the ends, as illustrated in Figures 5 and 6.

The hickey of the present invention is constructed in such a manner thatthe airlxing means for the cables above described will af- 8u ford asecure'mounting for said hickey. To this end, the hickey comprises abody 16 in the form' of a sleeve extending from a central portion 17.The opening through the body is so formed as to provide inner and 8aouter screw threaded portions 18 and 19 of different diameters while theexterior surface of said sleeve is also screw threaded, as indicated at20, to provide a third threaded diameter. The latter threads are capableof being engaged by the internally threaded end of a fixture tube 21, asshown in Figure 1, while the other threads 18 and 19 receive theexternal threads of other tubes of different diameters. Thus thearrangement provides for the accommodation of fixture tubes of threedifferent diameters.

To mount the hickey in position, the portion 17 has extending laterallytherefrom on opposite sides the arms 22 provided adjame cent theirextremities and on the same side edges (Figure 2) with notches 28adapted to receive the screws 15 with said extremities interposedbetween the heads of the screws and the straps 14. By tightening thescrews it will be obvious that the hickey will be secured in a xedposition within the casing and the various conductors 13 may then beextended through the opening in the bdy 1G and the tube 21 which isthreaded upon said body.

" In Figures 5 and 6, hickeys are shown which are adapted to extendlengthwise ot the casing instead of transversely, as shown in Figure 2.In this case, the arms 24 are simply made longer so as to extend betweenthe straps 14 at the ends of the casing. In Figure 5, the extremities ofthe arms are provided on opposite edges with notches 25 to receive thescrews 15 while in Figure 6 one extremity is shown with a notch 26 inone side edge with the other extremity having a longitudinal notch 27therein.

What is claimed is:

1. In an electrical connection. a casing,

.straps therein for securing electric conduits in position in thecasing, fasteners for fixing said straps in the casing, and a hickey insaid casing including laterally extending arms engaging said straps andfasteners and secured in position by the latter.

2. In an electrical connection, a casing, straps therein for securingelectric conduits in osition in the casing, screws for fixing 'sai'straps in the casing, a hickey in said casing including a body, and armsextending in opposite directions from said body and having notchestherein to receive said screws, said arms engaging said straps and beingsecured thereto by said screws.

In testimony whereof I havel affixed my signature.

- ALFRED LIEBOWITZ.

